"Frank F. Parlato, Jr., a newspaperman and blogger in upstate New York, spent years fighting to expose Keith Raniere, who is accused of branding and enslaving female followers of his organization, NXIVM.

Raniere once employed Parlato as the group’s publicist — giving him access he’d later use to help bring NXIVM down.

That’s only one of many strange twists in a tale that started more than a decade ago and has now led to Raniere, 57, facing federal sex trafficking charges. He will be arraigned in Brooklyn on Friday."